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Do the investigation they say it is doing, as he will report to us. That is an expensive report and explosive reporting. Im so glad you are covering it with the person at the center of all of it, everyone who cares about the integrity of our democracy and the high court and the decisions it is making should be watching tonight. Im going to save you some time because pennsylvania senator bob casey is joining us and he is this programs pennsylvania political expert. We are going to get it settled ...

Word with lawrence odonnell. We have sheldon whitehouse joining us. He will tell us something you might suspect. That is that the background investigations and senate confirmation process arent quite what some people say they are. That is an explosive rep court. Everyone that cares about the integrity in the high court and decisions. I will save you time. Bob casey is joining us and he is the political expert. We will get it settled tonight at the end of the hour with senator casey. That wont be...

Dianne feinstein. ambassador sherman, this is the party that claimed that the kavanaugh confirmation procedure should be all about due process, should be all about the presumption of innocence in the accused, and here is the president going up there -- out there leading the "lock her up" chant that he invented, he and his crowd invented which, of course, is exactly the opposite of what the republican party pretended to stand for. >> lawrence, you know, one of the things i want to say to everybod...

You see this wave coming through america and how women are waking up to say, wow, this republican party really is not -- is really not for me personally. and i suspect that theyre going to pay a price, not just next month, but theyre going to have a long-term problem with women coming out of this. >> and apparently donald trump doesnt know how to read the polling effects of the kavanaugh confirmation because he was out there tonight -- today in a rally talking about the kavanaugh nomination and ...

>> you never know. maybe i said it to myself. the last supreme court nominee let it all out, said what he believed, the late robert vork. he was so district and so confrontational he didnt get nominated. justice souter, i knew him. he was the attorney general. i had no idealogical feeling. i thought he was a moderate balance and thoughtful guy. thats the way he came off in his confirmation procedure. i think he ended up voting the way his mind and heart took him. in other words, i dont think he ...